Unscientific America

by Roz Chast

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0385276222
• ISBN13: 9780385276221
• Release Date: August 1986
• Publisher: Doubleday Books
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Unscientific Americans by Roz Chast

There is a very good reason Roz Chast is always mentioned as a cartoonist featured in The New Yorker magazine: She is brilliant. From the twists she puts on familiar phrases to the eye for detail as shown in the wallpaper she draws, Roz Chast books are a delight on every level! "Unscientific Americans" continues her streak of fall-down-laughing cartoons including my personal favorites: Supermarket Hell, Not So Vital Statistics, and Unpopular Mechanics. The world needs more of Roz Chast!

kooky cartoons done just right

New Yorker cartoonist Roz Chast has some of her finest moments in this volume. Her bizarre wit complements her plain figures well. Sort of like a highbrow Gary Larson, only stranger and more suburban.

Understated but frightfully clever humor

The cartoons in this book aren't the sort that tickle your funny bone with a tire iron. Instead, they start with an idea that you think has been hackneyed to death, give that idea a slight twist, and take that twist to its logical conclusion. The results are such cartoons as "Lunatic Fringes" and "Unpopular Mechanics."